Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-04-02

the country editor rushes 10 the front
to tell what he knows about farming.
Farmers need such advice, we suppose
anyhow they get it--because the
country editor reads II out Of an alma
nae ans then gushes. AS our modest
contribution to this spring literature
we would suggest the following.
About the middle OF next week farm
ers should SOW their red pepper and
mustard seed-they are warm natured
herbs aud can endure great deal OF
spring weather mingled with light
SHOWS and balmy Wisconsin breezes.
They should be planted early so as to
ripen in time TO meet all emergencies
such as lockjaw and hydrophobia crea-
ted by the advent Of green cucumbers.
They are to be applied, in plaster form,
to the boy externally, internally fire.
quently and repeatedly.
All farmers who have not sown their
wild oats would do well to postpone the
work until the Prohibition campaign
is fully developed.
Don't train your pumpkins vines to
climb the telegraph poles, they prefer
to meander along rail fence and
Irvine their tendrils around old stumps
and slip-gaps.
Potato bugs should be muzzled while
they are young, in this way they can
best be trained to. stand without hitch
ing.
Don't run the moldboard to young
tobacco plants in the bed, it has ten.
dency to injure their appetite and make
them pie-bald.
Early onions should be grated into
the earth near your goat pasture-com
petition being the life of.trade.
A good sized yellow dog planted un
der the roots of a Scuppernong grape
vine makes quiet fertilizer, and never
: injuries the bark OF the vine.
!. Hens are Mugwumpish at this season
OF the year, and in convention of ear
ly garden truck thew are greatly inclin
Ell to scratch the platform. Say t
them; If they have eggs to lay, prepar
. to lay them now.
;, II your first planting of early garde
seeds don't come up in due time inquir
OF your nearest editor. The drugge
i, you brought the seed from has probi
/, bly, sold you some back-numbers.
- Examine your almanac and you
= be all right unless Capricornus
y trumps, and the sign is in the horn
X so, buy another almanac.
:, Have your liver inspected bya con
\ petent mechanic, and don't try to cate
: fish until the poplar leaves are abol
the size OF a squirrels ear.
10 Encourage your patriotism durin
\ your leisure moments, and sit on IL
- fence few hours each day during Il
noontide in July and August
- If you have jug about the premis
:, you are prepared for emergencies, ar
y you can then use prohibition, or let
- alone, just as your wife thinks best f
=, the growth OF your hair.
n Keep out of quarrels and thereto
- avoid candidates, tax collectors, fema
~ lecturers, brass music, missionari
~ and men who part their hair in i
- middle.
Nv Finally: Beware of limitations, al
~ stick to your county editor. He i
~ nothing to gain by disappearing t
M power of porous plasters in drawn
- tobacco plants, and he has no cause
!, lying unless it arises from his inhere
inclination to write on two subjects
" the same time when he is liable oc
o sionally to get the date for harvest
" early york turnips mixed up with t
price of new ground Tugs and the re
=. tive rates for the long and short hs
~ mentioned in the Interstate CONNER
- bill.
THE Tobacco Fair held by the Den
? crat at the Exchange Monday was
tai occasion OF much interest TO the farme
If The weather was unusually cold for Il